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Love Song, for Oboe and English Horn, is an instrumental version of my Wedding Song. It was commissioned by Sarah Davol for Double Entendre’s new CDDouble Take, American Reed on the Albany label for release on 9/1/14.

Instrumentation: Percussion Quintet Duration: 7:00 Commission UVA Percussion Ensemble Premiere 4/11/15, UVA Percussion Ensemble Old Cabell Auditorium Charlottesville, VA Program Note The title, Khamsa, which means ‘five’ in Arabic, refers to an ancient palm-shaped amulet that has been used as a sign of protection against the…

Lyris Quartet plays Shatin’s Elijah’s Chariot on a concert presented by People Inside Electronics at Monk Space in LA. You can hear an excerpt here. Originally commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, and toured by them from Asia To Europe to America, including BAM’s Next Wave…

When the Moon of Wildflowers is Full, for Flute and Cello, was composed many years ago for the wedding of dear friends that took place in a beautiful meadow in high summer in Aspen, CO, where I was a composition student at the Aspen Music…

Many ingredients go into Judith Shatin’s music. While it is informed by a deep sense of musical history, it is just as much a by-product of her profound desire to search for new sounds. It is also deeply inspired by history itself, but not as an artifact. Rather it is something that is malleable and very much alive, something that we in the present can continue to engage with to better understand ourselves.

Judith Shatin, Kenan Professor of Music at the University of Virginia, writes music that is satisfyingly challenging, music that forces listeners to face up to their own perceptions of music, what it is and how it relates to other artistic disciplines.

Love Song, for Oboe and English Horn, is an instrumental version of my Wedding Song. This new version was commissioned by Sarah Davol for Double Entendre’s new CD Double Take, American Reed on the Albany label. The release date is September 1, 2014. This lyrical…

Instrumentation: Amplified clarinet + electronics Duration: 9:04 Premiere 10/29/2008 Marianne Gythfeldt University of Delaware Wilmington, DE Program Note Penelope’s Song is a tribute to Penelope, Queen of Ithaca and wife of Odysseus. It was inspired by Homer’s epic, the Odyssey, which tells of the travails of Odysseus, but comments…

Judith Shatin is a true sound artist. She applies sound to the airwaves in the same way a painter applies colors to canvas. She is not trying for melodies that the listener will walk away singing, but she uses melodic material for dramatic effect. The…